CBP supervisor accused of harboring illegal immigrant in his Texas home faces criminal charges

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) supervisor is accused of harboring an amerciable migrant helium was engaged successful a romanticist narration with successful his Texas home. 

Andres Wilkinson appeared successful a national courtroom this week and was ordered held pending a detention hearing, the Justice Department said. 

Wilkinson began moving for the CBP successful 2001 and was promoted to a supervisory presumption successful 2021, wherever helium oversaw the enforcement of customs and migration laws.

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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor successful Texas has been charged with harboring his amerciable migrant girlfriend.  (Getty Images)

At immoderate point, authorities learned that an amerciable immigrant, identified successful tribunal documents arsenic Elva Edith Garcia-Vallejo, was surviving astatine Wilkerson's Texas home. The brace were engaged successful a romanticist relationship, national prosecutors said. 

She entered the United States connected a non-immigrant visa successful August 2023 and aboriginal overstayed authorized travel, which expired connected Feb. 4, 2024, authorities said. 

From June done November 2025, authorities surveilled Wilkinson’s location and observed Garcia-Vallejo surviving determination with Wilkinson and her underage child, according to the charges. Investigators besides observed her utilizing vehicles registered to Wilkinson, tribunal documents allege.

Garcia-Vallejo was interviewed by authorities successful February. 

Federal prosecutors allege she had been surviving with Wilkerson since August 2024. Wilkinson provided fiscal support, including housing, recognition cards, assistance with fiscal obligations and entree to vehicles registered successful his name, prosecutors said. 

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Department of Homeland Security main Kristi Noem and an representation of the U.S. Border Patrol patch. (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)

He besides allegedly transported her done U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints. 

Garcia-Vallejo began surviving successful the U.S. with her hubby successful the borderline metropolis of Laredo. He petitioned for her to go a ineligible nonmigratory earlier withdrawing the petition successful April 2025. 

On 14 May 2025, CBP investigators received accusation from a instrumentality enforcement database indicating that Garcia-Vallejo is Wilkinson’s niece, the ailment states. She is the "daughter" of a antheral whom Wilkinson listed arsenic his member successful his 2023 inheritance investigation, prosecutors said. 

"The pistillate admitted that she had been surviving with her uncle, SCBPO Wilkinson, since connected oregon astir August 2024," according to the complaint.

Authorities allegedly recovered a May 2025 papers successful which Wilkinson confirmed to the Border Region/Behavioral Health Center that Garcia-Vallejo and her daughters had been residing astatine his location arsenic portion of his household since December 7, 2024.

The ailment didn't marque wide whether Wilkinson and Garcia-Vallejo were related by matrimony done relatives oregon by blood. 

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Wilkerson faces up to 10 years successful situation and $250,000 successful fines. Fox News Digital has reached retired to CBP and the Department of Homeland Security.